Legal and Ethical Issues

Question 1

Confientiality

Answer 1

-both and ethical standard and legal obligaton

Question 2

When should confidentiality be breached?

Answer 2

• child abuse
• older or dependent adult abuse
• to prevent a serious crime of violence
• records are being subpoenaed by the courts
• **client is informed in writing

Question 3

When can a psychologist disclose info in emergencies?

Answer 3

MAY be able to if client is showing self harm

Question 4

What are the child abuse issues worthy of confidentiality breach?

Answer 4

• physical abuse
• emotional abuse
• neglect
• sexual abuse

Question 5

Child sexual abuse

Answer 5

• sexual assalt
• molestation
• incest
• exposure
• exploitation
• sexual grooming

Question 6

When are age laws stricter?

Answer 6

stricter when under 16 and even more so under 14

Question 7

When is a report not required when it comes to age?

Answer 7

• 16 with a 20

- 14 with a 15

Question 8

When is a report required when it comes to age?

Answer 8

• under 16 with over 21
• under 14 with over 16
• required if someone under 18 is having sex with adult in position of authority

Question 9

What does a client under 18 have to state in order for it to be reported?

Answer 9

-they are currently being abused or they have been in the past

Question 10

What other times does abuse have to be reported?

Answer 10

• if an adult claims guilty
• psychologist sees marks
• client mentioning someone else is getting abused
• reasonable suspicion

Question 11

what is the age for an elder adult?

Answer 11

65

Question 12

definition of a dependent adult

Answer 12

mentally or physically disabled

Question 13

different kids of elder/dependent abuse

Answer 13

• physical
• sexual
• emotional
• neglect
• isolation
• abandonment
• financial abuse

Question 14

What happens when a client makes a bodily harm threat to someone else?

Answer 14

psychologist needs to call the police and make an attempt to notify the intended victim

Question 15

civil commitment

Answer 15

involuntary psychiatric hospitalization based on a persons state of mental healthy (not criminal)

Question 16

When can a person be in a 72 hour hold?

Answer 16

due to a mental disorder, there is DANGER to SELF or OTHERS or if the person is GRAVELY DISABLED

Question 17

Patients bill of rights

Answer 17

• right to the least restrictive environment
• right to treatment
• right to refuse treatment
• access to telephone, mail, visitors, privacy, TV

Question 18

5150

Answer 18

• 72 hour hold

- 5 year firearm prohibition

Question 19

5250

Answer 19

• 14 day hold

- lifelong firearm prohibition

Question 20

criminal commitment

Answer 20

legal process by which people accused of a crime are instead judged to have mental problems and are sent to a mental hospital instead

Question 21

what does a competency evaluation determine?

Answer 21

• understands the charges
• understands the legal process
• is able to use counsel in own defense
• in contact with reality

Question 22

what happens if a defendant is NOT found competent to stand trial

Answer 22

• commitment to a mental hospital
• will stay there till mental state is stable
• undergo court proceedings
• may or may not plead NGRI

Question 23

NGRI

Answer 23

not guilty by reason of insanity

**insanity is a legal term not psychiatrist term

Question 24

how many of people have schiz who are NGRI

Answer 24

2/3

Question 25

How many people tell the truth when they plead NGRI

Answer 25

25%